View Single Post
  #43  
Unread 03-09-2021, 12:35 PM
Tim McGrath Tim McGrath is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Chicago
Posts: 220
Default

Here's another famous quatrain that is perfect to the last syllable:

I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

In "Our Secret Discipline," her study of Yeats, Helen Vendler did an excellent job of examining the technical aspects of these four lines.

Last edited by Tim McGrath; 03-09-2021 at 01:48 PM.
Reply With Quote